In an accepted dog-eat-dog world behaviour of polarizing actions/reactions ...
with cannibalistic elitist theories firmly indoctrinated in the US population (to some a version of the American dream),
and social and economic Darwinism being the idolized regime promoted by your "elitist priesthood",
the US surely is not making any friends in the time ahead.

Greatness and destruction comes in waves of peaks and valleys to those who enforce it, choose to live by it...